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Health Education

Health Education Lessons

Health Education is offered throughout the curricula in a variety of formats.  The District Wellness Coordinator works with the District's Assitant Superintendent of Educational Services, department heads, and individual teachers to create, implement, and revise the health education programs throughout all schools and grades. Some examples of the District's health education program include:

Middle School Sexual Health Education 

Burlingame Intermediate School offers a comprehensive sex education program in both 7th and 8th-grades. The 7th-grade program covers basic sexual education topics such as human reproductive anatomy and physiology, fetal development, sexually transmitted infection prevention, and birth control methods. The 8th-grade program, building upon 7th-grade topics, offers instruction in building healthy relationships, gender identity, and sexual orientation and equality, as well as reinforcing lessons in preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. More on the sexual education program and links to the instructional materials can be found on the Middle School Sex Education webpage. 

School Gardens and Cooking

The Burlingame School District supports garden-based education with a garden in every school. Some schools have well-established garden programs, while other schools are in development (recent building construction has temporarily interrupted some of our school gardens). School gardens are utilized as outdoor classrooms to teach a broad spectrum of educational subjects, including nutrition and cooking, science, math, and humanities. Here are some of our district's gardens:

BIS Garden - The BIS garden thrives on student participation. The Garden Lunchtime Cooking Club currently meets Monday during lunch - the garden is open to students in the garden club to come to hang out, do a little gardening and cooking, and learn about healthy lifestyles. As part of the garden club, the students get to make and eat food harvested from the garden. 

Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs

Burlingame School District offers drug use prevention instruction in 6th-grade at the Burlingame Intermediate School. The district has adopted the Project ALERT curriculum that is supplemented with a variety of other multi-media and activities, including material from the Stanford Tobacco Prevention Toolkit. One activity, the Vaping Scavenger Hunt, engages youth to use their smartphones to scan QR codes from info cards hung throughout campus to learn facts and fictions of e-cigarette use. 

The district is a recipient of a Tobacco Use Prevention Education grant from the State of CA. Funds provided through this grant allow us to conduct the annual CA Healthy Kids Survey on student use and perception of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. Results can be accessed either on the KidsData website or the CDE's DataQuest website.